Pruning in the Rose Garden 



Big Flowers, Many Flowers, or a Glorious 

 Show; and How to Get Them 



PRUNING is a more important factor of success 

 with roses than with anything else you grow. There 

 are a few sorts which will get along with compara- 

 tively little care but the majority of them, and especially 

 the garden roses, will reward only the gardener who does 

 not spare the pruning shears. 



There are, however, roses of all kinds and descriptions, 

 differing in their requirements and having possibilities 

 of treatment in various ways, so that the inexperienced 

 gardener will be lost unless he can get a few general 

 principles of rose pruning . 



fixed. I shall try in this chap- j' 



ter to straighten out this rose 

 tangle so that any one who 

 will follow the instructions 

 given cannot go far wrong. 



To begin with there are two 

 things to be considered in 

 pruning any rose. The.iirsti*,'. 

 the natural charaeter^ri^Jjk ^j.. -.^iJSi^ 

 of the class or type,j^plmiT^^"*\^r^'^ 

 it belongs; and tiie seDOH^'Ts-'' '**'>*« 

 the result the gardener may 

 wish to achieve — thgrsffij?^^; 

 individual flowers ; the^eatest 

 quantity of good flowra'sv'or . ^^^ ^ 



lie most striking show in his spring pruning of hardy garden 



garden, or on the trellis or rosra; the mme severe the pruning. 



° , ' , , the finer the noweis, but there wUl 



arbor, as the case may be. not be so many of them. Cut 



To take the second of these JS^^^^ltT ""^^ "^ 

 factors first: With any indi- 

 vidual plant you may follow one of at least three methods 

 of pruning. Severe pruning will give you the finest indi- 

 vidual blooms, the most perfect roses you can produce, 

 under the conditions you have. Moderate pruning will 

 give you many more blooms and quite perfect ones, 



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